The Yale Transplanting Board. 



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be set with a trowel or other tool or implement known to the 

 writer. 



Rear View. 



Open View. 



Front View. 



Note: It may be of interest to note in this connection that the idea of 

 using a transplant board for placing seedlings in the trench is a feature 

 of Hacker's Transplanting Machine which has been in use in Europe for 

 a number of years (See F. Q., vol. IV, p. 154). The machine makes the 

 trenches and also plants and iirms the seedlings. This machine is largely 

 used in Austria and Germany, and, for demonstration purposes, has been 

 used at the Toronto forest school. It sets 30-40 thousand plants per crew 

 of five. The main or only objection to it, is that the plants are not neces- 

 sarily, but usually set across a 4-5 foot bed, which prevents or impedes 

 weeding by machinery. — Ed. 



